The market over the weekend had good supply of fresh commodities.
There was plenty of supply for commodities such as Matooke, fresh cassava sweet potatoes and Irish potatoes.
Other commodities that flooded the market included beans and groundnuts.
The supply for the above commodities exceeded demand hence pushing the prices lower than usual.
A lot of matooke was delivered in the markets from the Native areas of Mbarara and Masaka with a sack that weighs between 110kg-120kg selling at Ush 30,000 and 25,000 off lorry.
Irish potatoes had a good supply which forced a reduction in price. There were plenty of Irish potatoes from Ssingo that forced the Kabale crop to sell at Ush 55,000 ,Ssingo Ushs48, 000 and Kisoro for ushs50, 000.
Fresh cassava and sweet potatoes also continue to flood the markets especially kalerwe and owino, a 2-3kgs heap was selling at Ushs 500.
There was an increase in supply for the large and medium size beans and low supply for mixed beans. No change was registered for the small beans as there demand is low prompting farmers not to cultivate them. Mityana and Mubende has been the major supplier of large beans (K132) and medium sized beans like ‘Kahoola’ (Rosecoco) came from Mbarara and Kasese. Price range for Nambale (K132) beans was Ushs. 1,000- 1,100/kg off lorry Kalerwe and Owino markets. Medium size went for Ushs.1, 100-1,200/kg. The small size beans (white) are going for Ush.900/kg while Mixed beans at Ush.800/kg off lorry Kisenyi market.
Although there was an increase in supply of groundnuts, the price remained stable at Ushs 1,800 and Ushs 2,000 in most of the Kampala Markets due to the increase in demand as students prepared to go to school.
Traders also acknowledged the presence of some groundnut stock from Tanzania, as the other determinant for its stable price.
All in all the supply exceeded the demand for most commodities in these markets leading to a decrease in prices.
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